Dr. Rainer Simon

I'm a Senior Scientist at the
Digital Insight Lab at
the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. My
work revolves around the use of semantic technologies and Linked
Data in the Digital Humanities and Digital Library fields. I always had a passion for maps,
and in many of my projects I have been dealing with geospatial or cartographic data. Presently, I serve as the
Technical Director for
Pelagios Commons, an international initative that
aims to foster better linkages between online resources documenting the past. I am also the technical lead for
the Recogito annotation platform.
As an avid software developer, I have more than 10 years of experience with Java, and over time had decent
exposure to a range of other languages, including Python, Groovy, Ruby, C# and C++. Recently, though, I love to write
my code mainly in Scala and JavaScript. (There's also a slightly extended - and more academic - version of my bio
available here.)

CURRENT PROJECTS

Pelagios Commons. Pelagios is an international
Digital Humanities initiative that facilitates linking of online resources that document the past, based on the places
they refer to.
Find out more...Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation